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Element card · group PvE · atomic number 15,425, its rank

Sheltered Rust

Online NA 75.35.76.144:30002 checked 8m ago

quad monthly wipes moddedcarbonpve
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 20 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,425top 69% · #1544 in NA
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeak
0123405:0014:0023:0008:0017:0002:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
05010015020005:0014:0023:0008:0017:0002:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k1 Oct6 Oct11 Oct18 Oct23 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 82% in NA, and #635 of the quad servers (top 76%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak0players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 14hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 14hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:11 UTC FW26d ago 0 – running 0

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Map and rules

What map is in play on Sheltered Rust?

A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1854078996 runs on Sheltered Rust, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.

How is Sheltered Rust configured, and what rules apply?

The name of Sheltered Rust carries no gather rate. You get up to 4 players per group (quad). pve is the game mode, other players cannot be fought. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. The plugin count is Carbon. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server facts

What region hosts Sheltered Rust?

With its NA tag, Sheltered Rust places itself in North America. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. 75.35.76.144:30002 is the address it uses.

On what Rust version does Sheltered Rust operate?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Sheltered Rust uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How dependable is Sheltered Rust for staying online?

Sheltered Rust is live as of now. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 21 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. On 1 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Is Sheltered Rust known for smooth running?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 141 server fps, with a low of 124. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 117,356 entities. Up to 4,253 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on Sheltered Rust, and at what time?

Once a month is all Sheltered Rust wipes, with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. Counting back, the current world began 26 days 10 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

On Sheltered Rust, what happens when wipe day arrives?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 0 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 0 hours after it began.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Sheltered Rust?

gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival, vanilla style; mp20 (Max players): 20 is the slot count; ts4 (Group limit): Teams cap at 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): You fight the world, not other players; ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run on Carbon; NA (North America): The server browser files it under North America: that is the tag list Sheltered Rust publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Sheltered Rust appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Sheltered Rust: Modded Rust servers, measured, Best Rust PvE servers, measured live and North American Rust servers: the sample. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Population

How does Sheltered Rust compare with other servers in the rankings?

Sheltered Rust is #15,425 on seven-day player hours, #1,544 in North America, and in the top 69% of all ranked servers. Within quad, its rank is #635.

What does the current player count on Sheltered Rust tell you?

Of 20 slots, 0 are taken on Sheltered Rust right now. The past week gives an average of 0 players.

How to join

How can you connect to Sheltered Rust?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 75.35.76.144:30002, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you. For more, visit https://discord.com/invite/8hkzUyqBaT.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^p,^m,NA,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts4

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival, vanilla style.
mp20
Max players 20 is the slot count.
ts4
Group limit Teams cap at 4 players.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE You fight the world, not other players.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Plugins run on Carbon.

Region

NA
North America The server browser files it under North America.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.